Category: VCA Country
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Zambia
Zambia’s cities and its countryside suffer the effects of climate change. Rains disappear for months, meaning that farmers see their crops die. Pastoralists rearing animals struggle to find water for their herds.
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Indonesia
Indonesia’s capital Jakarta is the fastest sinking city in the world. The threat to Indonesia’s capital is emblematic of the fears of a country with almost a hundred thousand kilometers of coastline in times of climate change.
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Brazil
Brazil is a key frontier in the global struggle against climate change. In the favelas, landslides destroy people’s homes. In the Amazon rainforest, indigenous communities fight against land grabbing and deforestation.
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Kenya
Kenyans face the increasingly severe effects of climate change. Both extreme floods and prolonged droughts destroy the lives and homes of communities. Women, indigenous people and the poor are particularly vulnerable to these dangers.